WASHINGTON — At 12 years old, Naia Butler-Craig decided she wanted to be an astronaut. Each time she walked into St. Mark AME Church in Orlando, Florida, and saw the framed photo of Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space, she knew space was her ultimate goal.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover reacts on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's USS John P. Murtha after returning from the crew's Artemis II moon flyby mission's Orion capsule, which splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.
NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch put on ship hats on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's USS John P. Murtha after returning from their Artemis II moon flyby mission's Orion capsule, which splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover reacts as he walks across the flight deck of the U.S. Navy ship USS John P. Murtha following extraction from the Artemis II mission's Orion crew module in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover reacts on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's USS John P. Murtha after returning from the crew's Artemis II moon flyby mission's Orion capsule, which splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.
NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch put on ship hats on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's USS John P. Murtha after returning from their Artemis II moon flyby mission's Orion capsule, which splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover reacts as he walks across the flight deck of the U.S. Navy ship USS John P. Murtha following extraction from the Artemis II mission's Orion crew module in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.